An environmental law group has filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against a water meter manufacturer that allegedly sold the Los ...

A man who claims he wrongly was kept in jail for more than a week after his bail was posted has filed a lawsuit seeking class...

WASHINGTON - Another battle may be brewing over a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee, but this potential showdown has ...

WESTMINSTER - In a much-anticipated decision this week, Orange County Superior Court Judge Tam Nomoto Schumann will tentative...

Receiving strong support from the majority of the Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles County joined other local governments Tue...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stung by a furious sanctions order from U.S. District Judge Charles A. Legge, plaintiffs' attorney Sandra Rae...

SAN FRANCISCO - A coalition of minority groups and aspiring college students sued the University of California, Berkeley, Tue...

NEWPORT BEACH - Chris Decker can't move back to the Orange County apartment from which he was evicted after police distribute...

Attorney Steven L. Mazza, fresh from having felony charges dismissed , has sued his former attorney, Martin S. Bakst, for leg...

In his first effort to bring about an early settlement in a high-profile case, County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman won a recommen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Settling an issue that troubled an appeal court, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a defendant d...

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office is implementing the vast majority of 56 recommendations made by a private a...

Matt Fong, former California state treasurer and the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate last fall, has rejoined Los Ang...

SACRAMENTO - To the United Farm Workers, the violence that erupted in the strawberry fields of Watsonville last summer is the...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a small defeat for Microsoft, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ordered the software giant Thursda...

SACRAMENTO - The United Farm Workers union is riding high these days with Gray Davis in the governor's office. The election o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The future of the State Bar of California currently lies in the hands of two men, and the bar's Board of Gove...

During a 1980 court hearing on spousal support, a trial judge advised Ida Schaffer that to become self-sufficient she might w...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice is seeking a budget of $21 billion for fiscal year 2000, a $371 million increase over ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected another challenge to California's "reasonable doubt" instr...

SEATTLE - The state Supreme Court has twice rejected a proposed rule to bar attorneys from having sexual relations with their...

SAN FRANCISCO - Easy access to medical records has patients worried that information about their diagnosis and treatment will...

SACRAMENTO - Robert Coyle is the first to admit architecture was never his forte. But now the senior federal judge is conside...

SAN FRANCISCO - Deploring a growing "culture of exclusion and division," U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson spoke out W...

Some East Coast law firms, anticipating an economic downturn in 2000, are already expanding their bankruptcy practice groups....

In response to a judge's ruling that Monrovia's daytime curfew for school-age children contradicts California's truancy law, ...

A Los Angeles County supervisor wants to rescind the county counsel's authority to approve contracts with outside counsel and...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. attorney's office said it will seek the death penalty against Walter "Pierre" Rausini, who is accuse...

A Southwestern University School of Law graduate has filed suit against her long-lost father, claiming he reneged on his prom...

DENVER - Denver divorce lawyer Tony Sturniolo is tired of the state's no-fault divorce laws. That's why Sturniolo and a handf...